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Mostly because there are no epic level 80 deaths by bunneh in World of Warcraft.

Tuesday brought about Patch 3.3.5, which contains the eventually-will-be-activated Ruby Sanctum Raid, but the big one is the Real ID system.

People have been asking Blizzard for a long time for some kind of cross-server chat functionality. This is something FFXI had a looooong time ago (though its implemented through the pain in the arse called Play Online).

When I started playing WoW, like rolled my first toon started playing, I was with my boyfriend at the time, and we were playing along with a couple we were friendly with from FFXI. Time passes, we went our separate ways, and eventually, I came back to WoW. I decided to stick with my original server, since now that I was back I knew no one. Time goes by. I quit and start playing again. This time I find out not only is another good friend of mine from FFXI playing, but a bunch of people I was friends with in college also play.

And of course, everyone’s on different servers.

And all seem to play dirty Horde (but I digress ).

The only way we could ever keep in touch in WoW, was to roll alts. I have a smattering of them across a few different servers (including a Tauren with a name based on Mad Cow Disease). But between raiding and real life, it was hard to find time to just hop on a shoot the breeze. And how did I even know said friends would be online when I logged into my level 9 cow?

In comes Real ID, and it makes my life SO MUCH EASIER. My current boyfriend? I can now delete all eleven thousand of his toons off my friends’ list. I can chat with my one best friend’s husband, who’s out in Arizona (I am here in New Jersey, for those who don’t know). I was able to reconnect with an old friend of mine last night through it. My boyfriend can now chat regularly with his best friend (who lives in Vegas) and his mom (who lives in Oregon, and yes, plays WoW).

Hell, thanks to Real ID I’ve got tentative plans to see a friend from college for dinner sometime soon. And I know had it not existed, I probably wouldn’t have made those plans (because I despise talking on Facebook, whose privacy policies are about a thousand times more shady than Real ID).

Seriously, I am thrilled with it. I have some other friends who used to play WoW, but will be rabidly playing Starcraft II once its released. While we chat on a very regular basis (thanks to the wonder called Blackberry Messenger), we can now harass each other in-game now. Cross-game. C’mon, how awesome is that?

When it comes to security… I’m not concerned. I’ve been tinfoil hat careful with my PC (Avast! and Firefox with AdBlock and NoScript. Plus I do zero casual web browsing on my gaming rig). I have an authenticator (and will lecture guildies to suck it up and get their own once they get hacked. Like I did the other day). Your battle.net email is not displayed anywhere once you’re friended. As I stated above, Facebook’s privacy policies are a lot worse than this.

Now, I’m not going to add everyone and their brother, obviously. Going to keep it to people I know in real life, and people I’m in contact with on a regular basis. Everyone and their brother doesn’t really need to know how much I play when I’m at home, after all. :3

So last night I got dragged into a ToC run with a friend of mine. We were going to do 1 heroic run and at least 2 regulars (we were going to do more and farm, but I was tired and people were dragging their feet getting started).

Heroic went fine, as did the first regular run. I managed to get uncontested (finally) The Black Heart, which now gives me a full tanking set (and 30,000 HP when fully buffed)! Not that I intend to do any tanking, any time soon.

Or so I thought…

The 2nd regular ToC run went less than stellar, as our healer DC’d, and shortly after that our Shadow Priest had to bounce (it was him and his girlfriend’s anniversary). So it left myself (on my Druid, obviously), a Prot/Holy Pally, and a Holy Pally who swapped over to his Hunter. We decided to let the Prot/Holy Pally heal, and I’d attempt to tank it and we’d 3-man it. So, we did.

3-manning it, we did okay (it was Paletress, btw, who we were stuck on. Eadric is easy as hell compared to her). Got the image down to 30k before we wiped. The Hunter called in another guildie, who hopped on his Warrior. The extra DPS made a big difference- we 4-manned her np. Even better- she dropped the Banner of Victory, which I was hoping to snag for my kitty set (my Feral set is kitty-focused, with some tanking talents for the sake of soloing/emergencies). The Warrior and I both needed… and I won! (If you check my armory I’m in my Feral kitty set atm.)

So we continued with that set-up and I tanked the Black Knight and it was… easy. Even the 2nd phase, with all the stupid adds- no problem. Maybe our Pally healer was just that good, I don’t know. But tanking was kind of fun, and I think I’d like to try again sometime…

11 am EST!
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I meant to update this yesterday, and get back on schedule, but due to an insomnia attack, my day got a bit effed up. Oh well.

Was a quiet week, though we did get a lot done.

This is a long ass post, so adding in a jump so it doesn’t take up the whole first page!
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